.: ARAVALI :. NGOs in Rajasthan, NGO Directory



	Sanjeev Kumar Executive Director Qualification Graduate - Science Post Graduate - IRMA Area of Specialization Rural Institutions Work Experience Sanjeev has been associated with implementation aspects of rural livelihoods since 1988. He has worked in different institutional settings viz. Cooperatives, State, Private, and Voluntary. He brings in varied experience across sectors and states in India.

	Bharati Joshi Programmes Director Qualifications M.Sc. in Extension for Natural Resource Based Livelihoods (University of Reading, UK); Post Graduate Diploma in Forestry Management (IIFM, Bhopal); M.Sc. in Plant Molecular Biology (Delhi University) Areas of Specialization Extension for Livelihoods Promotion, Instructional Design, Adult Training, Action Research Experience including type of activities performed She has around nine and a half years of experience in action research, training, and extension for natural resource based livelihoods promotion. She has worked for Ashoka-Innovators for the Public (U.S.), IIFM-Bhopal, and also with ARAVALI (during an earlier stint). As a freelance Consultant, she has completed a number of consultancy assignments including curriculum design and training, research studies and situational analyses, resource assessment and monitoring, and community-based programme evaluations. She is trained in e-instructional design and adult learning, and has a diverse range of publications to her credit.

	Seema Upadhyay Programmes Coordiinator Qualifications PGDRM from IRMA Areas of Specialization Rural development, Programme management Experience including type of activities performed Around 13 years of experience. Have been involved in conceptualising the strategies; managing the programmes; building community based organisations; conducting research; documenting processes and best practices; planning, organising and implementing capacity building programmes.

	Dilip Kumar Yadav Co-ordinator- Communications and ICT for Development Qualification B.A. from Bihar University, Muzaffarpur 12 Years Area of Specialization Training, Documentation Experience including type of activities performed As Coordinator at ECAT for liasoning with donor agencies and Govt. Departments, monitoring and reporting. As Manager Administration and Finance (Water Resources Dev. & Management Project) Water Resource Department, Govt. of Gujarat. As Coordinator at Small Ruminant Dev. & Afforestation Programme. As Coordinator, Income Generation Programme, SWRC, Tilonia. As Coordinator Khoj Project. As Coordinator, Craft Development Centre

	Ambuj Kishore Coordinator- Northern & Southern Regional Resource Centre Qualification Post Graduation in Rural Development from Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi, Jharkhand. Certificate Course in Project Management by HIFAB International AB at Stockholm (Sweden) supported by Sweden International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Sweden 8 Years Area of Specialization Project Management (Framing of Project based on LFA), Natural Resource Management, Watershed Management, Community Mobilization and PRA Application. Work Experience From August 1, 2001 – July 31,2003 as a Young Professional of CAPART, Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (Under the aegis of Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India), New Delhi worked as Project Manager in Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), Alwar, Rajasthan. From October 2003- February 2005 worked in Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi in Natural Resource Management Unit as a full time consultant executing two projects in Rajasthan State under “ Green Corps- volunteers for Water Harvesting” Programme. One based on Watershed Development in 28 villages of Jamua Ramgadh Tehsil, Dist: Jaipur funded by Royal Danish Embassy, (DANIDA), New Delhi . Another project based on Community based Water- Harvesting work in three districts of Alwar, Dausa and Karauli funded by Ford Foundation.

	Varun Sharma Coordinator- Eastern Regional Resource Centre Qualification BE in Agricultural (Collage of Technology and Agriculture Engineering, Udaipur); LLB (professional three year course) from Rajasthan University Jaipur Area of Specialization Livelihood Programming, Disaster Management, Program Design, Development of Project MIS, Monitoring and Evaluation, Resource Mobilization and Promotion of community institutions Experience including type of activities performed He has almost 9 years of experience in programme management, strengthening NGO partnership, building NGO capacities and organizing trainings. As Partner Support Officer in Catholic Relief Services Rajasthan had been to oversee and ensure the quality dimension of program being implemented across 11 districts of Rajasthan. This includes providing directives to a team based at various locations where partner organizations are based. His efforts in holding regular interface with donors, UN agencies, local government authorities, the church consortium partners and NGO partners had helped strengthening multiparty accountability. Proposal development, Resource mobilization and program management had also been the important responsibilities in this position.

	Falguni Lokhil Coordinator- Western Regional Resource Centre Qualification PGDMN 8.5 Years Area of Specialisation Institution Building, Micro finance, Incorporate gender aspects on programmes, Farm, off barm base livelihood and micro enterprise Experience including type of activities performed Falguni has 8.5 years in NGO Sector. She worked as Community Organiser with Lokmitra Organisation, Dheduki, from November 1998 to October 1998 after she worked as Community Organiser with Center for Environment Education, Telaja for a period of one year. From April 2001 to August 2004 she worked as Village Institution Coordinator with Cohesion Foundation Rapar and from October 2005 she has worked as Programme Officer with Cohesion Foundation, Ahmedabad. Falguni was responsible there for institution building, micro finance, for incorporating gender aspects in programmes, promotion of farm and off -farm livelihoods and micro enterprises, and developing training modules.

	Rishu Garg Programme Officer- Central Regional Resource Centre Qualification Post Graduate Diploma in Forest Management (2000-02) Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. Area of Specialization He has about four years of experience in the area of community forestry. Prior to joining Aravali, he worked with IIFM-ITTO research cell in IIFM and with the state forest department in Sehore forest division of Madhya Pradesh. Working as project coordinator of Forest development agency, Sehore, in implementation of National afforestation program he was closely associated with planning, implementation and monitoring of various actives of the of afforestation program. While working in IIFM-ITTO research cell he was actively involved in preparation of various technical documents on sustainable forest management. His interest areas are natural resource management, watershed management, forestry, common property resources and livelihood issues in natural resource management.

	Ranjana Kumari Programme Officer, Northern & Southern Regional Resource Centre Qualification Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (Marketing Development) Area of Specialization Experience including type of activities performed Ranjana has 3 years experience in the development sector especially on issue of Local Self Governance. She worked in PRIA as Jr. Project Executive in PRIA s Programme Intern and Junior Project Executive on the programme on promoting local self governance by building capacity and coordinating Civil Society Building Programme (RTI Act), NREGS, Girls Child Education, Participatory Town Planning.

	Gungun Thanvi Programme Officer Qualification Master’s in Social Work, specialization Family and Child Welfare Education Area of Specialization Experience including type of activities performed Gungun started work with Door Step School [DSS], Outreach Department of YMCA in Mumbai and in Goa Foundation in Goa, as Student Social Worker. She has taken sessions with children in the Centre for Learning for Children [CLC] which covered vocabulary building, simple geography, and simple experiments of science and mathematics. She has completed documentation of various trainings the DSS staff had taken with the teachers of other organizations on teaching methods and practices. Gungun has also worked with Library volunteers – for motivating them to read and taking activities, which can help them promote children in the slums to read. Gungun has organised sessions with Teachers on Constructive Disciplining of children. She has contributed to the development of a new syllabus for Balwadies, in DSS, prepared teaching aids for making teaching process interesting and lively, worked on preparing a report on garbage management initiative of Goa Foundation for UNDP, initiated Garbage Disposal and recycling project, mobilized Migrant workers and enlisted the same, and also compiled a database of the Registered Mines of Goa.

	Murari Mohan Goswami Programme Officer, Northern & Southern Regional Resource Centre Qualification Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Post Graduate Diploma in Management of NGOs (PGDMN) Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad 5 Years Area of Specialisation Livelihoods and Micro–Enterprise Development, Organisational Development and Management, Capacity Building and Training. Experience including type of activities performed He worked with Rajiv Gandhi Open Institute as Programme Officer. His primary role was community mobilization and helping project level team to implement CAPART funded project towards livelihood promotion of fisher folk communities of South Assam. He also, worked with ARAVALI as PAVA intern and placed in Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti (BGVS), Rajsthan as programme coordinator. His effort was directed towards providing technical expertise and support to district level teams while ensuring effective management of the programme. Later, he joined “The Livelihood School” promoted by BASIX as Faculty Associate. His effort was towards knowledge building and it’s dissemination around livelihood issues through flagship programme called Programme in Livelihood Promotion.

	Arundhati Bhattacharya Programme Officer- Western Regional Resource Centre Qualification BSc (Hons) Environment and Water Management MBA Rural Management (Specialization-Rural Marketing) Area of Specialisation Livelihood and Microfinance Institutional Development ( NGO/ CBO / NGO-MFI) Experience including type of activities performed Arundhati has been associated with the Micro Finance Sector since the past 2 years, during which she has worked to promote livelihoods in rural and urban areas. She has expertise in micro Finance, Action Research and Small Scale Entrepreneurship Promotion and varied experience of working in different socio cultural settings and in challenging regions of the country like Rajasthan, Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal. She has worked as a Field Executive with BASIX, Indore from April 06 to May 07 and after that she worked as an Executive with BASIX, Ranchi. Her key responsibility there was conducting participatory appraisal of organizations and assessing requirement of services of MFIs and CB MFIs.

	Ankur Khound Programme Officer- Western Regional Resource Centre Qualification Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management. (PGDRM) Area of Specialisation Micro-enterprise Development, Livelihood Enhancement, Corporate Social Responsibility and Program Management. Experience including type of activities performed Initially worked as a PAVA intern with PROGRESS, Banswara for 1.5 years. Then posted as a Programme Officer in the CSR wing of ITC Ltd known as “Mission Sunhera Kal” for 3 years. During his professional career he has been responsible for managing different type of development projects related to micro finance and micro enterprise development, livestock development & agricultural extension, solid waste management, watershed and elementary education.

	Joy Chowdhury Programme Officer- Western Regional Resource Centre Qualification MBA-Rural Management from Xavier Institute of Development Action & Studies (XIDAS), Jabalpur MP Area of Specialisation Elementary Education, Project Management, Community Mobilization Experience including type of activities performed He possesses above 5 years of experience in development sector. He started his professional life with Foundation for Ecological Security, an NGO working in the Kolar district of Karnataka on Watershed Management. He worked with Naandi Foundation for 3.5 years in the project “Ensuring Children Learn” at Chhattisgarh & Madhya Pradesh. He was also with the Child Fund-India overseeing the Basic Education, Early Childhood Education and Child Agency programme with 7 partner NGOs. He has experience of handling projects related to NRM, Elementary Education and Child protection.

	Divya Kalia Programme Officer- Eastern Regional Resource Centre Qualification B.Tech (Agricultural Engineering ) from JNKVV Jabalpur (M.P.) M.Tech (Environmental Engineering.) from SGSITS, Indore (M.P.) Area of Specialisation Livelihood Promotion through NRM Experience including type of activities performed Has 6.5 yrs of experience in the sector with implementing agencies and a funding agency as well. Her experience in this sector is mainly related to the livelihood enhancement of rural community through natural resource management in semiarid regions of M.P. and Rajasthan. Experience with funding agency is around project and grant management.

	Shubha Khadke Programme Officer- Eastern Regional Resource Centre Qualification M.S.W. (Specialization Urban and Rural Community Development) Master’s in Journalism and Mass Communication Area of Specialisation Livelihood promotion & Micro finance, Institutional Development & Community mobilization Experience including type of activities performed Shubha has 5.5 years experience in development sector. She started her professional career with Women Thrift Cooperative project, a pilot project of National Dairy Development Board, Anand in April 2004. She completed her 3.5 years journey with BASIX from executive to Asst. Manager. As an executive her key responsibilities was Business development, Portfolio management and HR Management. In the institutional development work her role was identifying the training needs of the stakeholders (MFIs) and working towards capacity building of them.

	Avinash Kumar Panday Project Officer- Eastern Regional Resource Centre Qualification M. Sc. in Anthropology, M. Sc. In Ecology and Environment and Post graduate diploma in Social Duties and Human Rights Area of Specialisation Non farm based enterprise promotion, microfinance and programme monitoring and evaluation Experience including type of activities performed Started working in the NGO sector from the Social audit under NREGA after this gets attached with non form enterprise promotion which includes mobilization and capacity building of the artisans. This project also includes the fund rising from the district level. Almost six moths experience of monitoring and evaluation of the various projects (education, tribal rights and enterprise based) in the high altitude of the Himalayas.

	Amit Sharma Programme Officer Qualifications Areas of Specialization Experience including type of activities performed

	Bharti Gaur Programme Officer Qualifications Areas of Specialization Experience including type of activities performed

	Ummed Singh Programme Officer Qualifications Areas of Specialization Experience including type of activities performed

	Lokesh Gupta Accounts Officer Qualification B.A. 13 Years Area of Specialization Accounts maintenance Manual and Computerized, Computers Programming in FoxPro and HTML. Experience including type of activities performed Capacity building of NGO's on account and administration issues, budgeting, financial progress reporting to funding agencies, maintenance of equipments work in groups.

	Anil Kumar Jain Programme Assistant Qualification M.A. (Eng.) 12 Years Area of Specialization Good command over Computer Applications (MS-Office), Graphic & Web Designing, Stenography (English), Letter/Report Typing (Hindi-English), Editing etc.; Administration and Store Management etc. Experience including type of activities performed Worked with Shri M.L. Mehta (Ex-Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan). Worked in an NGO called Sumedha in Jaipur. Worked as PA to MD, BHRC, Jaipur. Presently assisting Executive Director, Programmes Director, Programme Officers. Maintain proper filing system within the organisation. Preparing Database of Partner NGOs, Funding Agencies and Government Departments. Event Management: Assisting in organising workshop, seminars, training and field visits conducted by ARAVALI such as finalizing venues, training material, correspondence with Partner NGOs, Resource Persons etc.

	Amar Chand Kataria Programme Assistant Qualification M.Com (Bus. Admn.) 5 Years Area of Specialization Good Command over Computer Application (MS Office), Letter/Report Typing (Hindi, English), Editing etc. Job Responsibilities To assist Social Mobilisation Project at Ajmer. Experience including type of activities performed Before joining the ARAVALI , had Worked with Indian Institute of Rural Management (IIRM) Jaipur- in RUIDP – CAPP (Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project- Community Awareness and Participation Programme) project in Ajmer as Computer Operator for two year from June 2004 to Sept. 2006. Worked with DTO office at Beawar as Computer Operator from May 2002 to May 2004. Worked with M/S T.P. L. Industries at Bhilwara as Office Assistant from June 1998 to Sept. 2001. Worked with M/S Sangam India Ltd. At Bhilwara as Store Assistant cum Computer Operator from Sept. 1997 to May 1998. Worked with M/S Mewar Textile Mills Ltd. At Bhilwara as Store Assistant cum Computer Operator from Nov.. 1993 to August 1997.

	Satya Narayan Singh Administrative Assistant Qualification 8th Pass 9 Years Job Responsibilities Filing and Office Maintenance Experience including type of activities performed Office Assistance

	Bhairu Lal Gujar Administrative Assistant Qualification 8th Pass 10 Years Job Responsibilities Receive and Dispatch of daily correspondence, Office Maintenance Experience including type of activities performed Office Assistance